Apple Snider

Greetings from Albuquerque, New Mexico! I’m Apple Snider. Can you guess how I got my unique name? I’m the education coordinator for the Southwestern Region of the USDA Forest Service—that includes 11 beautiful national forests and grasslands in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas and Oklahoma. My favorite part of my job is connecting people to nature. I do this by supporting programs like Every Kid Outdoors and working with groups that help kids and adults appreciate nature and conservation. My dream is for everyone to be able to play and learn outside and to understand how important public lands are to making forests, watersheds and people healthy and happy. I’ve been fortunate to work outside on public lands in Vermont, Hawaii, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, where I earned a master’s degree in ecology studying bats. I love sitting outside to watch the sunset and searching for the first bat to fly across the evening sky!